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Re: [TLS] Deprecating SSLv3

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sat, 22 November 2014 16:42 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 11:42:00 -0500
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Deprecating SSLv3
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> * First SSL 3.0 is still in use - at least my experience shows many SSL 3.0 only
> services on a typical network (it did only take few hours to get the first bug

Sure, there are lots of deployments.  We see it too.  (Well, not lots; significantly under 1% by connections.)

But that does not mean it is the best practice.  Sometimes you just can't be the best.  I'll never win a medal at the Olympics, but that doesn't mean that other folks should never be able to set world records.

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